There has been much controversy surrounding the government-funded abstinence-only programs and determining whether or not they have done anything to curb teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Does promoting abstinence to American youth while holding back on teaching about contraceptives inspire them to remain celibate or does it keep them in the dark about the [...]

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I have mentioned more than once on this blog about my upbringing and my being surrounded by many middle and high school friends who experienced unplanned pregnancies. For some, it was just a way of life and almost expected because it had become a generational tradition. For others, it was a mistake made in the [...]

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Teenagers are trouble…at least that’s what my father always said to me as I asked for the umpteenth time to borrow the keys to the car that I had already scraped, bottomed out and rear-ended somebody with in the previous year. As a mother to two small ones, I can tell you, whenever they fight [...]

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